10 BARNES AND McDUNNOUGH: CATOCALA 



Catocala Judith Strecker 

 Plate I, fig. 15; PI. X, fig. 28 (larval head); PI. XI, fig. 15 (larva); PI. XVIII, figs. 23 and 24 (claspers). 



Catocala Judith Strecker, 1874, Lep. Rhop. Het., Nov., p. 95, PL xi, fig. 5. Beutenmuller, 1902, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, 



p. 390, PI. lii, fig. 15 (larva). 

 Catocala levettei Grote, 1874, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, V, Dec, p. 95. 



This is a small species in which the primaries are a pale even gray and the fringes of the secondaries are smoky-brown. 

 The sexes are practically alike and we have never seen any females with a black basal dash. 



The larva is unknown to us. Figure 15 on plate XI is presumably from the original of Beutenmuller's description 

 in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 390; Dodge (1901, Can. Ent., XXXIII, p. 224) has also furnished a description 

 of the mature larva. A detailed account of the egg and the early larval stages is a desideratum. 



The species is wide-spread throughout the Eastern States and the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, extend- 

 ing northward into Ontario and Quebec, where it is comparatively rare. 



Catocala flebilis Grote 



Plate II, fig. 12; PL XII, fig. 19 (larva); PI. XVIII, figs. 33 and 34 (claspers). 



Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, IV, p. 4. Rowley and Berry, 1912, Ent. News, XXIII, p. 209 (larva). 

 Catocala dejecta form Carolina Holland, 1903, Moth Book, p. 261, PL xxxn, fig. 5. Beutenmuller, 1905, Can. Ent., XXXVII, p. 292. 



This species closely resembles a small retecta but generally has the reniform much more distinctly centered with brown; 

 a prominent black shade from the base of wing to the outer margin just below the apex is always present, being evenly 

 oblique and not irregularly broken as in angusi var. lucetta; on the under side of the primaries the white areas, which are 

 quite prominent in retecta, are greatly obscured by blackish scaling. Holland, erroneously figuring lucetta (PL xxxi, 

 fig. 11) as flebilis, has redescribed the true species as Carolina, his figured specimen (PI. xxxn, fig. 5) being a rather pale 

 and poorly marked male. 



The early stages are unknown to us but have been accurately described by Rowley and Berry. According to this 

 description, the absence of the lateral filaments distinguishes the larva from that of retecta and proves the validity of the 

 species. 



Flebilis is nowhere very common but is wide-spread. It has practically the same range of territory as Judith except 

 that it does not extend so far northward, there being no records of its occurrence in Ontario and Quebec so far as we know. 



Catocala angusi Grote 

 Plate II, figs. 13-16; PI. XVIII, figs. 25 and 26 (claspers). 



Catocala angusi Grote, 1876, Can. Ent., VIII, p. 229; 1877, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., Ill, p. 188, PI. v, fig. 1. Rowley, 1909, Ent. 



News, XX, p. 135 (larva). 

 Catocala residua var. lucetta French, 1881, Synop. Catocalse Illinois, p. 4. 

 Catocala flebilis Holland (nee Grote), 1903, Moth Book, p. 262, PL xxxi, fig. 11. 

 Catocala angusi var. edna Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIII, p. 150. 



The typical form of this species is that figured by Grote in Buffalo Bull., Ill, PL v, figs. 1 and 2 and in this work 

 on plate II, figures 13 and 14; the female (Fig. 14) which has a black basal dash has been redescribed by Beutenmuller 

 under the name edna. The form lucetta (Fig. 15) occurs in both sexes and is characterized by heavy black streaks at base 

 of wing and beyond the cell; this form, as already noted, has been erroneously determined by Holland as flebilis Grote. 

 The name lucetta is usually attributed to Hy. Edwards but should stand, according to the rules of nomenclature, as lucetta 

 French, since French first diagnosed the form in his Synopsis of the Catocalse of Illinois, the fact that it is attributed to 

 "Hy. Edwards, MSS." not altering the case at all (vide Banks and Caudell, Entom. Code, p. 8, Rule 27). The 

 specimen figured on plate II, figure 16, is recorded by Beutenmuller in his explanation of plates as an aberration of 

 angusi; as we have not seen the original specimen which served for the figure nor any specimens at all similar, we refrain 

 from comment. 



